A Jordanian government spokesperson says that two prisoners, Sajida al-Rishawi, a failed female suicide bomber, and Ziad al-Karbouli, a former aide to deceased al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, were executed at dawn on Wednesday. Al-Rishawi was on death row for her role in an attack that killed dozens of people in Amman in 2005. The executions came after ISIS released a tape that showed a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive, and Jordan vowed an "earth-shaking" response.
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